Posted on 06/23/2024 5:36:45 PM PDT by lightman
A gunman opened fire on two synagogues, two Orthodox churches, and a police post in Derbent, Russia— home to a Jewish community— on Sunday.
According to the state-sponsored TASS news agency, the Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan Shamil Khadulaev confirmed that a 66-year-old priest was found dead with his throat slashed at one of the Orthodox churches.
Two police officers were killed and at least six people were wounded during the incident.
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following statement:
The synagogue in Derbent was set on fire and burned to the ground. Local guards were killed. The synagogue in Makhachkala was attacked by gunfire, there are no further details. At the same time, churches were attacked in Makhachkala and a priest was murdered in Derbent. As far as is known, there were no worshipers in the synagogues at the time of the attack and there are no known casualties from among the Jewish community. The Israeli embassy in Moscow is in contact with the leaders of the Jewish community in the district. [It was a] combined attack in two cities in Dagestan province, Makhachkala and Derbent.
At least 5 police officers k*lled and 1 priest beheaded.
The bearded terrorists are all dressed in black and are shouting “Allahu Akbar”
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
New Priest-Martyr of Derbemt, pray for us!
Instead of Slavs fighting each other in the heart of Europe, the entire West should be united in destroying Islam.
there are a lot of videos of the street battle all over the internet since 5 hours ago...
Well, Biden, Blinken, State, CIA and FBI said they were going to attack Russia.
I really doubt that there was a priest killed in a Jewish synagogue.
Very poorly written headline.
The Priest was beheaded in an Orthodox Christian church.
Amen!
lightman - your use of the term “Islamist” is pandering to the left.
What these jihadis did is purely as per IslamiC rules as stated very clearly and explicitly in the Hadiths, with the examples from the life of the profit in the Sirah and corroborated with the nonsensical verse of theQuran.
It was an Islmic attack, not “Islamist terror”
Correct.
I really think that if Vlad had just stuck to threatening in Feb 2022, he would have have:
1. Got the Donbas without a shot
2. Got a pliant Ukrainian government in a year or so (see Georgia)
3. Kept Muscowite prestige
4. Kept Germany etc. hooked on Muscowite oil and natural gas and doing nothing
5. Been able to concentrate on his south
The priest’s wife said her husband had been shot in the head by one of the attackers, contradicting earlier reports that his throat had been slit.
Prayers for the martyred priest
That's what I expected after he setup those two "republics" in the East. He virtually annexed them like Ukraine. He could have moved on with incrementalism, and referendums and chipped away at Zelenskyy's power base until the regime was changed. But he went the other way.
Yes. It was soo apparent that everyone else was going to abandon Ukraine (and everyone DID until they showed they had a spine and won the battle of Hostomel and the battle of Kyiv in March 2022).
He would have threatened, NATO would have folded, Zelensky would have lost an election or been recalled within a year and a Kremlin grandee would have won.
Instead he let hubris hit him — just like Dubya in 2003
100% agree..and a good analogy too.
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